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Dec 06 2019

2020 Vision: Protecting Your Hospital's Tax-Exempt Status

  • Posted By: David J. Edquist & Adam S. Bazelon
  • Legal Update
  • Health Law

The manner in which medical services are being provided to patients is rapidly changing. Procedures that used to be performed in hospitals and required overnight stays are now being performed at outpatient clinics. Similarly, technological advances have decentralized hospital administration and the way in which treatment is provided. This should not come as a surprise to anyone that has any level of familiarity with the health care system, which includes just about anyone who goes to a doctor on a regular basis.

It should also come as no surprise that the law often lags behind technological advances and is often in a state of playing "catch up." This trend is readily apparent when it comes to the property tax exemption for Wisconsin hospitals. The good news is that the courts are now taking the advances in hospital care into account when affirming eligibility for property tax exemption, particularly as to clinics and outpatient facilities. That said, hospitals must be vigilant in obtaining and maintaining their exemption.

This Legal Update offers guidance for Wisconsin nonprofit hospitals that may be filing tax exemption applications for calendar year 2020. Later in this Legal Update, we briefly discuss recent developments at the federal level involving hospital exemptions under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

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Nov 26 2019

Proposed Coordinated Care Safe Harbors – Fulfilling the Promise

  • Posted By: David J. Edquist & Stacy C. Gerber Ward
  • Legal Update
  • Health Law

Fulfilling its promise to help facilitate the health care system's transition from "volume" to "value," the Office of the Inspector General ("OIG") has proposed three new safe harbors to the Anti-Kickback Statute that would shield certain arrangements that are designed to enhance coordinated care.1 While these types of arrangements are already becoming more common in the health care industry, providers have been cautious about employing them because of persistent concerns over recent aggressive enforcement by the OIG and the Department of Justice of the Anti-Kickback Statute ("AKS"). With these proposals, OIG seeks to assuage those concerns as part of its "Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care."

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Authors

  • Daniel T. Dennehy
  • David J. Edquist
  • Timothy C. McDonald
  • Randall D. Crocker
  • William E. Taibl
  • Kenneth A. Hoogstra
  • Doris E. Brosnan
  • Jeffrey E. Mark
  • Heidi L. Vogt
  • Peter F. Mullaney
  • Ryan T. Siehr
  • Stacy C. Gerber Ward
  • Aaron M. Smith
  • Adam S. Bazelon
  • Madeline C. Schmid
  • Thomas J. Chmielnik
  • Jacob J. Curtis
  • Daniel J. Balk III
  • Matthew R. McGovern
  • Samuel G. Robertson
  • Peter J. Walsh
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  • physician referrals
  • leases
  • emtala
  • ipps
  • minimum wage
  • alternative lease structures
  • block leases
  • physician investment
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  • mid-level providers
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  • opps
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  • recruiting arrangements
  • designated health services
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  • academic medical centers
  • medical records
  • mental health
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  • red flag rules
  • identity theft
  • physician conduct
  • disruptive physicians
  • hcqia
  • health care reform
  • per-click leasing
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  • provider agreements
  • physician agreements
  • patient consent
  • protected health information
  • national institute standards and technology
  • hhs
  • provider claims
  • bylaws
  • hospital outpatient therapeutic services and procedures
  • section 503(c)(3)
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  • payment bundling
  • gainsharing
  • value based purchasing programs
  • physician quality reporting system
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  • peer review
  • fair labor standards act
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  • wisconsin health care quality improvement act
  • whcqia
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  • fee-for-service beneficiaries
  • antitrust
  • social media
  • erisa
  • division of quality assurance
  • affordable care act
  • false claims act
  • overpayments
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  • managed care
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  • provider-based designation
  • incident to provision
  • prospective payment system
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  • hospital lien statute
  • voluntary overpayment refunds
  • whistleblower
  • oig work plan
  • retailization of health care
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